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There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.

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Andrew Young
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: March 12
Diplomat
Film Producer
Former Mayor Of Atlanta
Human Rights Activist
Peace Activist
Politician
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Andrew Jackson Young
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.
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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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There is a sense in which the United States Ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat, rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say.
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I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.
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President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.
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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.
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I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.
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When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.
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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.
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The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.
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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.
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I always quoted to my parents from Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet. Your children are not your children. They come through you, but not from you. You can give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they come from a land that you cannot enter, not even in your wildest dreams.
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